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About Me

My first gig was Hawkwind, Usher Hall, Edinburgh Astounding Sounds Tour and it pretty much mapped out my life. I've seen them almost every year since. In 1979 I became the drummer in a band called Valhalla. The band was Heavy Metal, Space Rock and pretty good in retrospect. It was afterall the time of the NWOBHM. The band dissolved in the early eighties and I left Scotland to go to Thames Poly in Woolwich where another great musical time was had. At the turn of the century I gave up London to move west and haven't regretted it one bit. Today the year is 2007 and am I here and now. Does nothing seems quite as good as it did? Music just sounds so derivative, written by kids who have spent too long listening to their dads record collection. TV is an endless dirge of imported dramas which aren't nearly as good or clever as they think they are. You can't walk along a street without a bunch of private security workers in bad uniforms watching your every step. But worst of all you can't go to a Hawkwind gig and smoke anymore. We must rectify the above and bring together all things cosmic minded and provide a united front against boredom, middle age and apathy and if it goes some way to healing current rifts in the Hawkwind time space continuum then all the better. Just remember always ask why.

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Farewell. It was fun while it lasted.

Various reasons have caused me to reach the conclusion that Myspace has to go, so just a quick note to say farewell, thanks for the fun. I enjoyed it. If I have your e-mail I will probably be in touch...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:41:00 GMT

SPACESEED WINNERS.

The winners of the signed Spaceseed CDs were picked out of the hat last night by my entirely independent 10 year old.First out of the hat was NEIL, JOLLY HAWKER, even jollier now with a bit of luck.Se...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 11:00:00 GMT

SPACESEED PART 2

SPACESEED IITo celebrate the release of Spaceseeds new CD Architects of Twilight I spoke to a few of the key personnel involved. Last week we had John Pack and Brian Fowler core Spaceseed members and...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 14:09:00 GMT

SPACESEED.

Spaceseed, tell me more about Spaceseed. Well theyve been around for a while. I first became aware of them some years back when they performed with Nik Turner in the US and collaborated with Harvey B...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:14:00 GMT

I AM SOoooooo ANGRY!

I am so very fucking angry tonight and I want to tell you why. My little ten year old boy has been off school for a couple of days with a dodgy stomach and headache, probably a virus. He has however s...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:44:00 GMT

MY TOP GIGS THAT I CAN REMEMBER

I'm going to give you my top gigs that I can remember -DEVO - Edinburgh Odeon 1978, front row, never seen anything like them, blew me away. Are we not Men!Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Edinburgh Odeon...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:22:00 GMT

MY TROUBLE WITH HORROR MOVIES>

I watch a lot of horror movies. This week I took my daughter and her friend to see "The Unborn" at the movies. I have a lot of trouble with new, "modern" horror movies. This one turned out to be no ex...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:45:00 GMT

JUST WHO ARE ASTRO AL?

Ever wondered who or what Astro Al is? Seen them around but never quite got to grips with them? If you are a Hawkwind/Spacerock fan the chances are you will have come across them on Myspace, they may ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:14:00 GMT

R.I.P. RON ASHETON

Ron Asheton, Stooge's guitarist died last week. I am gutted. A lovely man and the world's first punk guitarist. I will miss him and I won't be the only one.Al.
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:25:00 GMT

HAWKFEST 2002

Just sorting out my photos and came across a bunch taken at Hawkfest 2002. They didn't seem too bad so I thought you might like to have a quick look. The festival, which was the first Hawkfest was a l...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:42:00 GMT